Popsicle Stick Bridge Competition

[raining0724]

Hey, I did this before. I used steel rods and covered it up with the popsicle sticks. Hold all the weights my teacher had. haha

[Xeron05]

We did this in one of my classes.

[nelrish24]

w0o0o0ow cool!

[bigdv519]

Awesome. I was in a popsicle bridge building competition in Virgina State. Only popsicle sticks and elmers woodglue. My bridge weighed ~2.5 lbs and held some 346lbs over an 18" span. We took the bridges to a test lab where a hydraulic piston with a 2" base would push down on the center of the bridge and would record the maximum pressure until the bridge started to give.

I got 2nd place because we divided the achieved pressure by the weight of the bridge (mine was ~140lbs per pound of bridge).

[KarstonLikesMustangs]

the song doesn't fit the video at all??

[bikercc]

@KarstonLikesMustangs thanks dorothy

[jeime5987]

sad sad people :L

[TheGrymkhana42]

i had to use 30 popsicle sticks and it held my 240 pound friend jumping up and down and still didnt break

[bikercc]

@TheGrymkhana42 was it flat on the ground or being suspended. I did the same to my bridge and it wouldn't show signs of breaking, although that isn't what bridges were built for.

[TheGrymkhana42]

@bikercc deff had to span a gap between to tables....

[imataco95]

Our limit was 50 stricks 2 main beams and a piece of cardboard (to show like a walkway) Mine held 200 pounds and mine friends held 255 pounds

[101quadrider]

what kind of glue did they use?

[vthekingv]

im doing this we use popscicle sticks and im making truss bridge we only use 600 popsicle stiks

[Rand0mAsian]

@vthekingv o.o! 600 popsicle sticks thats a lot!, we had to make one that was equivilent to 48 sticks in weight.

[vthekingv]

@Rand0mAsian

O well thats good haha but because its not that big, ur school must be welfare

[victoryX4]

lol you spelt retarded wrong so whos the retard..

[startingbacker84]

I'm not trying to be mean or anything but the highest weight of 135 would have been in top 10 in my class of model bridges. 2 kids bridges help them. I think we were allowed more sticks though.  We could use 240. No super glue or any of that stuff.

[owenryan20]

i heard this song at pirates of the caribbean

[gmfk12lk]

the record in a physic class at my school was 1500 pounds!

[jpodejko]

i'm doing it to at school but c'mon 135 lb THATS IT are minimume weight at my school has to hold is 600 lb YOU FAIL, ALL OF YOU

[bikercc]

wtf kinda bridges are you making? theres no way unless you are making gigantic bridges with epoxy and stuff

[sarahannpoe]

@bikercc use alot of glue and the cross thing haha it works trust me

[masta891]

@bikercc its possible to make one tht holds 600, it may not be the easiest, but there are ones ive seen at my school do it.

[jpodejko]

@bikercc there made of popsicles sticks, but be use a hydrolic press, not weights in a container

[ovoon7]

@bikercc We have students hold over 1200 lbs and could keep going (But they give up due to danger of floor collapsing) with a 1000 stick max. And we have allot more restrictions than you guys, no cutting off pieces, no coloring, only elmers glue all is to be used.

[bikercc]

@ovoon7 how old are your students? we were only grade 9 highschool students. we had restrictions to how many popsicle sticks we used kinda, we diodn't exactly have a heck of a lot to start with.

[ovoon7]

@bikercc YOUR GRADE 9? I thought you were much younger. I'm grade 11.

[bikercc]

check the date on this video. I was in grade 9, im now in grade 12

[ovoon7]

@bikercc  Ok cool, I was talking about in the video, not right now. I was just stating our rules and each year some bridge breaks around 1500 and some dont break at all. (I asked today, it was higher than 1300, thats a yearly average for high, but once there was a 2200)

[bikercc]

@ovoon7 cool! but its difficult to find something to use that will support up to 1500 pounds to even attach to your bridge, let alone even finding enough weights. This is why there were some restrictions in size and stuff so it was easier to test it. plus it was cool to see which design was the strongest. we used the program west point bridge design to help us out a bit.

[bikercc]

@ovoon7 cool! but its difficult to find something to use that will support up to 1500 pounds to even attach to your bridge, let alone even finding enough weights. This is why there were some restrictions in size and stuff so it was easier to test it. plus it was cool to see which design was the strongest. we used the program west point bridge design to help us out a bit.

[zamaroksgodd]

@ovoon7 Bullshit thats like half a car.

The champion for the university of western ontarios popsicle bridge held like 450 pounds.

[bigdv519]

@zamaroksgodd Very possible. I held 346lbs with an 18" bridge.

[Rand0mAsian]

@jpodejko i think theres different specifications for different schools eh? eg the weight limit of the bridge, the style of the bridge, the length , dont be so negative and say such thing as YOU FAIL, im sure they did good for their situation.

site note, just test my groups bridge today, help 680newtons =D dunno what that is in american units ><

[omgdan23]

rofl GTA SA theme

[roboman79]

LOL, The song at the end was from

GTA sa!

[HughseyAndLevo]

how many sticks were used when you made this bridge? - im doing the same project at school....

[bikercc]

there was no limit so i cant remember.

[sarahannpoe]

@HughseyAndLevo Yeah im doin the same thing..

[Gr33nCola]

Nice Bridges^^ i like build stuff for wood^^

[walikai]

i made one in grade 11, it held 120lb over a span of 50cm then we ran out of weights and the biggest kid in our class(around 250lb) sat on it holding all the weights and it didn't budge.

[xxxangelgirl13xxx]

Hi James xD

[samthejokerman]

damn, i'm doing 75cm span with at least 10cm high sopports on either side (off the ground)

you guys had it easy, lets se how i do :S

[DuoSkye]

I love the music xD The glory of bridge building hazzah!

[skysween]

hahaha, my bridge held over 1000 pounds :O :O now it's dead (N)

[69gothix69]

yea, but how many stics did u use, and what was its weight. I have to do the same shit in my class right now, and the max my bridge can weight is 90g, and span 30 cm :S.

[lovingrock]

same here it has to weight 90 grams and have a spam 30cm

[whitestripesssss]

you actually put this on facebook?

ahh who made it

[r0d3n7z]

that was pretty neat; maybe i can get my teacher to hold some contest like that in my class

[mnb134]

Thats a good video

2nd bridge desing suck

Go look at my video of ny bridge I made, it supported 650lbs

[atomicsaladbowl]

I built a bridge out of toothpicks and it held 200 lbs then shattered

[spinereto]

yep you guys held more weight then our bridges but you guys used the big Popsicle sticks. What kind of glue did you use? we used carpenters glue, no epoxy allowed.

[bikercc]

we used the original popsicle sticks the ones at the store. we used hot glue (i used some epoxy cus nobody said i couldn't)lol